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A common misconception is that you need to ground an esd mat or bracelet to a mains power outlet grounding pin, that is not what you should do ever! The reason being is that a lot of ground and neutral wires are sharing a bus bar in the main panel and any jolt or surge from anything hooked into the main panel can cause it to feed back to the ground. The purpose of an anti static mat and/or bracelet is the balance the potential/electro static energy between you and the part you are working on to neutralize any esd discharge into that part, that is why they say to touch a ground point on the circuit board, computer chassis before working on it, so that it will discharge any extra build up of energy from you into the ground to balance you and the part. Good video, I was interested in this mat to see how it will lay on a desk, some are very cheesy and bubble up a lot, this one seems ok.
Thank you for explaining. Even at my work it is recommended to attach bracelet and mat to the ground. Would it really send a jolt ? I has 1MOhm resistor between mat and banana terminal. It is good on the table but still wrinkled from being stored folded in the bag. Trying to keep it hanging flat to straighten a bit.
That black cable, you say to connect it to ground, where do we put that? Do we put in an electric power outlet or does it have to be in something else?
Yes you can connect it to ground receptacle on outlet, but this particular plug will not stay in. I have lab power supply and oscilloscope which I use with this pug
ifixit and others also sell a "ground plug adapter" you can buy. it's just as it sounds like 3 prong plug with the other 2 non ground prongs being plastic (so you can actually plug it in) and the other end is just a hole to put your banana plug into so connected to grounds.
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A common misconception is that you need to ground an esd mat or bracelet to a mains power outlet grounding pin, that is not what you should do ever! The reason being is that a lot of ground and neutral wires are sharing a bus bar in the main panel and any jolt or surge from anything hooked into the main panel can cause it to feed back to the ground. The purpose of an anti static mat and/or bracelet is the balance the potential/electro static energy between you and the part you are working on to neutralize any esd discharge into that part, that is why they say to touch a ground point on the circuit board, computer chassis before working on it, so that it will discharge any extra build up of energy from you into the ground to balance you and the part. Good video, I was interested in this mat to see how it will lay on a desk, some are very cheesy and bubble up a lot, this one seems ok.
Thank you for explaining. Even at my work it is recommended to attach bracelet and mat to the ground.
Would it really send a jolt ? I has 1MOhm resistor between mat and banana terminal.
It is good on the table but still wrinkled from being stored folded in the bag. Trying to keep it hanging flat to straighten a bit.
That black cable, you say to connect it to ground, where do we put that? Do we put in an electric power outlet or does it have to be in something else?
Yes you can connect it to ground receptacle on outlet, but this particular plug will not stay in. I have lab power supply and oscilloscope which I use with this pug
ifixit and others also sell a "ground plug adapter" you can buy. it's just as it sounds like 3 prong plug with the other 2 non ground prongs being plastic (so you can actually plug it in) and the other end is just a hole to put your banana plug into so connected to grounds.
@@TjPhysicist ya I picked up one of those from Amazon
Thank you for this video.
What chemicals do we use to keep these mats clean?
I was using isopropyl alchohol....
BTW, my mat still visivly creased after more then a year sitting flat
Can the black lead be connected to a grounding plug?
I connect my black lead to the Ground plug on my lab powersupply !